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...seven others were interdenominational agencies organized for specific purposes. Their names: the International Council of Religious Education, the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, the Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, the Home Missions Council of North America, the Protestant Council of Higher Education, the United Stewardship Council and the United Council of Church Women...
Today, twelve years after Lord Reith's resignation, BBC still tries to broadcast "the best in every department of human knowledge, endeavor and achievement," but it has somewhat relaxed the high, moral tone that accompanied Reith's stewardship. Under its present director general, Sir William Haley, Sundays are no longer given over wholly to the sermons and serious music that drove 60% of British listeners to tune in Radio Luxembourg and Radio Normandie...
...Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Foreign Missions Conference of North America, Home Missions Council of North America, International Council of Religious Education, Missionary Education Movement of the U.S. and Canada, National Protestant Council on Higher Education, United Council of Church Women, United Stewardship Council...
There was another, more subtle factor. Under Chairman Lilienthal's stewardship, the U.S. atomic program had successfully made the transition from military to civilian control. Production and morale were up; personnel turnover had been reduced; scientific research had taken big strides (see SCIENCE). But with Russian possession of the bomb, new readjustments were bound to come. It was probably time for congressional re-evaluation of the Atomic Energy (McMahon) Act of 1946, for redefining problems of secrecy and military security, for clarifying the checks & balances on AEC-the "advisory" scientists, the military liaison officers, the joint congressional "watchdog" committee...
...after 50 years in politics (four terms as mayor, four as a U.S. Representative, one as governor), he had suffered at one time or another from diabetes, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and ingrown eyelashes. He had served two penal sentences (the last, in 1947 for mail fraud) and during his stewardship Boston's debt and high taxes have increased, and its reputation for corruption has not declined...